1. EducationUSA-Virtual Consulting Office Network of EducationUSA advisers that provides professional e-consulting services in different languages on study in the United States.

2. Advising Without Borders! http://vco-edusa.net

3. VCO: New tool for advisers and prospective students Not a substitute for individual advising Cover regions without EACs Oriented for new audience

4. VCO: How it works Team-based operation Dynamic multilingual content Simple and unified structure Web template method

5. March 6, 2006

7. English CC Russian CC Arabic CC Spanish CC Chinese CC

8. VCO Project Now Team of 36 advisers, 21 country Multilingual Interactive Portal Five web templates Supported by one tech specialist

9. VCO Project Statistics: March 15, 2007 Visited by 67000 IP`s Received 3609 questions Achieved 2500 hits per hour Shared 16 GB of educational information

10. Five Language Versions of the Project: Comparison Statistics Number of Questions 1.Arabic 2.Spanish 3.Chinese 4.Russian 5.English Number of hits 1.Arabic 2.Russian 3.Chinese 4.Spanish 5.English

11. VCO Project in connection with the most important 2006 events The Franklin Award VCO & USBT Program Publications VCO Trainings New Advising Manual IEW-2006

12. Russian Consulting Center Natalia Rozanova, Moscow Anara Jamasheva, Bishkek Svetlana Kashkan, Minsk Alla Mironenko, Moscow Elena Kravchenko, Mogilev Irina Chernenkaya, Moscow Natalia Aulchenko, Novosibirsk Anna Savelieva, Moscow Viktar Khotsim, Minsk Alla Mironenko, Moscow

13. Questions Are Coming From: Russia – 37 % Belarus – 24 % Uzbekistan – 19 % Ukraine – 14 % Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan – 7 % Tajikistan, Moldova, Azerbaijan – 5 % Armenia, Georgia – 3 % Turkmenistan – 1 %

14. 1 st VCO Workshop in Minsk, Belarus

17. VCO Workshops Worldwide December 2005, Moscow, Russia May 2006, Abu-Dhabi, Emirates September 2006, Minsk, Belarus

18. Types of VCO use in our daily activities E-mails Phone Calls In person consultations Presentations, Lectures & Outreach

19. Building VCO Content Advisers Section of the EducationUSA website REAC-NIS@LISTS.STATE.GOV REAC website Handouts, success stories NAFSA website: OEA PN

20. Means of Content Building Basic knowledge about education in the United States Clear and logical structure Simple to read and understand Each part contribute to the whole

21. Taking care of VCO content Delete outdated pieces of information Simplify explanation of terms Improve structure of content

22. Types of incoming questions Very basic Labor-intensive Concrete Miscellaneous

23. Types of incoming questions: very basic Location: Uzbekistan. E-mail: Yulabr_1987@mail.ru. I want to study In USA.What I should do about this ?

24. Types of incoming questions: labor-intensive Location: Mongolia. E-mail: jalair_bayasgalan@yahoo.com. Please give me information about top universities in computer science in California and amount of financial aid in them

25. Types of incoming questions: concrete Страна: Украина. E-mail: OSA93@yandex.ruOSA93@yandex.ru Добрий день! Моя донька зараз вчиться в США по програмі FLEX (майбутніх лідерів). Питання: Чи може вона поступити Вїв ВУЗ США після повернення в Укаїну? Чи є програми Держдепартаменту США для таких дітей. Дякую. Олег Володимирович

26. VCO Consulting Service: Structure of Answers 1. Inspirational sentence 2. Core of the answer: template directing tailored 3. Call to action sentence

27. VCO Project Development  To open two new Consulting Centers in French and Portuguese.  Continue VCO& USBT Project  Increase VCO popularity

28. EducationUSA-Virtual Consulting Office ADVISING WITHOUT BORDERS! WE WELCOME YOU TO JOIN THE VCO TEAM!